Combination cooking utensil.



J. D. DUNN.

COMBINATION 000mm; UTENSIL.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 10. 1917" Patented Dec. 24, 1918.

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COMBINATION COOKING UTENSIL.

Specification in Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 24-, 1918.

Application filed February 10, 1917. Serial No. 147,871.

To all 10 ham it may concern Be it known that 1, JAMES D. DUNN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the county of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Cooking Utensils, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in culinary apparatus adapted to be employed in connection with gas or oil stoves or like heating devices, and has for one of its objects to provide a simply constructed device in which the parts may be disassembled for shipment or storage, and assembled when required by any person without previous skill or knowledge.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character adapted for use by campers, explorers and the like and may be disassembled and packed with the other camp equipage.

l/Vith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims; and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention- Figure 1 is an elevation, partly in section, of the improved device applied to a heater in which oil is employed as a fuel.

Fig. 2 is a plan view with the shell in section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a detached perspective view of one of the shelves employed in connection with the form of the device illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved device includes a body or shell represented as a whole at 10, and adapted to be supported over a heater 11 of any suitable construction.

The shell 10 is open at the upper end and provided with a suitable closure comprising a supporting member or body portion 17 and a depending flange 18 which fits within the u per edge of the shell. The body portion 1'? is provided with a plurality of apertures 19, and pivoted at 20 upon the body 17 is av cut-off plate 21 having apertures 22 corresponding to the apertures 19 and adapted to register therewith when the cut-otf memher is disposed in one position. The cutoff plate when rotated slightly upon its pivot will locate the openings 22 opposite the solid unperforated portion of the body 17 By this means air may be admitted through the top to any required extent within the range of the openings 19-22. may thus be controlled as required.

Slidably disposed through the body portion 17 of the top are the down turned ends of a handle 23, the lower ends of the handle being enlarged laterally to prevent the handle from being withdrawn. Thus when released the horizontal portion of the handle will lie in close engagement with the upper face of the body 23 and out of the way, and when the closure is to be removed the handle 23 may be elevated until the enlargements 24 engage the lower face of the closure.

Supported by the inner walls of the shell 10 are transverse supporting bars 25, the latter being located some distance below the upper open end of the shell. Any required number of the bars may be employed but generally two will be suiiicient, arranged to cross each other, as shown in Fig. 2, and with down turned ends to receive holding rivets 26 when rivets are employed to secure the shell.

The bars are riveted together at 27 where they cross each other as shown. The space between the bars 25 and the open upper end of the shell constitutes the chamber in which the vessels containing the food to be cooked are deposited or supported. These vessels may be of any required shape, either a single vessel conforming substantially to the outlines of the shell, or formed in a plurality of parts and arranged side by side within the cooking chamber. In Fig. 1 two semicircular vessels are represented at 28. The upper end of the shell may be also utilized to support an ordinary kettle or like cooking vessel by detaching the closure 17-18.

Detachable shelves may likewise be em ployed in connection with the shell 10, each comprising a body portion 31 having supporting brackets connected thereto, each bracket comprising an upper horizontal member 32 riveted or otherwise attached to the shelf, a depending portion 33 bearing against the outer face of the shell, a diagonal brace 34:, and a hook-like extension 35, the latter passing through a suitable The down draft aperture in the shell, as illustrated in Fig. 1 two of the bracket devices being employed connected with each shelf, as represented in Fig. 2. The shelves are thus detachable to enable them -to be packed within the shell for transportation or storage.

Havin thus described the invention, what is claime as new is- 1. A device of the class described comprising a shell, a perforated supporting member resting on the upper surface of the shell, a perforated cut-off plate of less di ameter than the supporting member pivotally mounted for rotation on the upper surface thereof, the perforations in the cutoff plate being adapted to register with the perforations in the supporting member and a bail extending transversely across the upper surface of the perforated cut-off plate and provided with depending legs extending through the adjacent perforations in the supporting member and provided with terminal enlarged heads adapted to bear against the lower face of the supporting member when the bail is in elevated position and to extend within the shell when the bail is in lowered position.

2. A device of the class described comprising a shell open at the ends and adapted to be disposed over a heat radiating medium, fiat transverse bars disposed Within the shell having their outer ends provided with depending lugs rigidly secured to the inner wall of the shell and their central portions intersecting and rigidly united, said bars being adapted to support a liquid container, a perforated supporting member resting on the upper edge of the shell and provided with a depending flange conforming to and bearing against the inner wall of the shell and a perforated cut-off plate pivotally mounted for rotation on the upper surface of the supporting member, the perforations in the cut-off plate being adapted to register with the perforations in the supporting member to control the draft through the shell] In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

JAMES D. DUNN. [L.s.]

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